What Quality Oil for the Menorah?

The Talmud on Chanukah, Lesson 4

What Quality Oil for the Menorah?: The Talmud on Chanukah, Lesson 4

The Talmud addresses whether inferior quality oil and wicks may be used for kindling the Chanukah menorah. We learn how this debated law depends on other disputed principles in the mitzvah of lighting the menorah.

Rabbi Binyomin Bitton, originally from Lyon, France, is the founder and spiritual leader of Chabad of Downtown Vancouver and co-Dean of the Jewish Academy. A renowned Talmudic scholar, his warmth, knowledge and passion for learning has brought him to teach in communities around the world. He now lives in Vancouver together with his wife Malky and six children.